On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:39:35AM -0700, mboverload wrote:
On 7/27/06, Chad Perrin perrin@apotheon.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:03:00PM -0700, mboverload wrote:
Everyone knows that Mediawiki should have been written in
Javascript. The
current implementation is a mess.
Frankly, if it was written end-to-end in Javascript, I (and millions of others) would probably use something else.
Don't take this as an insult, because I'm really not sure, but I was really joking. Building Mediawiki in javascript is a joke, which is impossible....right?. I mean, how would javascript write to the database. Maybe you were thinking I was talking about AJAX?
I had the impression it was probably a joke, but decided to answer the hypothetical unasked question anyway -- and it would be "impossible" to write the whole thing as it currently exists in Javascript, with current implementations of Javascript, but it's not impossible to create an online encyclopedia without any server-side scripting for the website.